While generally being overly pedantic and chastising forum posters to make their posts more clear and readable by asking them to include, for instance, code in "code" tags, I don't know of a perfect way to illustrate the technique. I was just wondering if anyone was aware of a way to "escape" BBCODE tags so they would show up literally in regular text. I've discovered that they do show up literally if embedded in code tags,

Code:

[code]Do this.[/code]
[quote="John"]Hello, world.[/quote]

but that's not always optimal. Anyone know something I don't? (On this topic, I mean. )

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